Penn & Teller's job is to find out how the magicians do their trick. If they can't figure it out, the magician gets to do their trick at Penn & Teller's show in Vegas.

THIS magician pulled out a beach ball, tossed it to the audience member and asked them red or black. They said red. That person tossed it to another. The question was asked diamonds or hearts. That person said diamonds. Ball was chucked again (by that audience member) and was asked high or low. THey said high. With one more toss, the magician asked which card from 8-Ace that person they wanted. They said nine. And so, he set out to "find" the Nine of Diamonds from a deck of white cards.

He shuffles them a bit, pulls out the three grey and black cards with words on them and sets them aside. He shuffles a bit more, cuts the deck, wiggles the cards, cuts some more, more wiggling, then puts the cards down and spreads them, revealing the words NINE OF DIAMONDS.

The host goes over to talk to him while Penn and Teller discuss it. Eventually they say "That was a good trick, but we think you did it with a deck switch, because you brought the cards up here in a really nice looking box, and to a magician, that's because it has some importance."

The magician goes "Umm, well, can I show you something?" He goes and gets the box, and shows that it has two compartments. One was where his deck of white cards was, and the second had his answer: NO. [No deck switch]

I thoroughly enjoy watching Penn and Teller. Along with the fact that they're incredibly entertaining magicians, their show " ******** !" taught me to always embrace common sense, logic and reasoning when facing ridiculous claims that people make.

That's true. You rarely ever see that these days. And who the **** isn't biased? Or biases come from our personal experiences and views. There isn't a single person on this planet that isn't biased. Even the ******* Dali Lama is biased!

I've got this figured out. Notice the tight spacing in the word "diamonds". I think the other suites are spelled out on the other edges of the cards in that area. Spelling out the pip value is more complicated, as there aren't enough card edges for all the possible words. So he just rearranges the cards (he does this in plain sight) to spell the correct word, in this case, "nine". The 3 cards "your" "card" "is" act as placeholders to help him quickly find the right set of cards to manipulate.

If you've ever seen this show, it's really amazing. I wish america had more of this stuff than the stupid **** we've got now. I mean honey boo boo? really america? I'd much rather watch freaking magicians do black magic.